Rs 2,900-crore infra spend for Delhi Govt schools

NEW DELHI: Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday announced that the federal government will construct 12,478 new rooms - including nine,981 study rooms and 106 multipurpose halls - for the infrastructure development of its faculties.

The Delhi cabinet, in its meeting chaired by means of CM Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday, authorized the schooling department's proposal for the construction of the new buildings. Sisodia knowledgeable that the entire procedure can be finished in a yr or a yr and a half.

Sisodia mentioned that of the full 12,478 new rooms to be built in Delhi executive faculties, nine,981 can be study rooms, 106 multi-purpose halls, 328 laboratories, 204 libraries/essential and vice-principal rooms/staffrooms and 1,067 bathroom blocks, including staircases, and so on.

These new buildings will be built on existing premises of Delhi executive faculties below the jurisdiction of directorate of schooling by means of the PWD, at an estimated cost of Rs 2,892.6 crore - with Rs 1,300 crore right through 2018-19 and Rs 1,562.6 crore right through 2019-20.


Announcing the new projects, Sisodia mentioned that eight,000 further rooms have already been built in Delhi executive faculties "with all modern amenities as part of the comprehensive agenda to impart quality education to the children of Delhi."


Sisodia mentioned that "we have pressure from students who are leaving private schools to come to government schools now." He added that there are 44 lakh scholars in Delhi faculties with 16 lakh in Delhi executive faculties. "We would hope that we have the capacity to accommodate all students," Sisodia mentioned.


He additionally knowledgeable that antagonistic Student Classroom Ratio (SCR) needs to be reversed and the construction of latest study rooms is the most important step on this course. Sisodia added that schools in additional than 280 structures are operating in double shifts with prime enrolment of students. The executive has additionally presented new vocational streams in the school curriculum for which further study rooms will be required, he mentioned.


PWD has been requested to survey all the school structures for getting ready the estimates for construction of study rooms along with all the basic requirements i.e. multipurpose halls, bathroom blocks, labs, staffroom, staircases, and so on.
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